Nations gripped by antisemitism self-destruct. The eternal law took a pivotal turn when South Africa and Israel sent their diplomats packing President Ramaphosa’s goons are set to lose major cities in the 2026 local government elections. The fateful question is how he and his doomed ANC party reacted. Their department of international relations, securely in Islamist hands, blamed Israel’s diplomat for dabbling in domestic politics. It declared Ariel Seiderman persona non grata and instructed him to quit the country pronto.  In a tit-for-tat, Israel told the ANC’s ambassador to Ramallah, believed by all Israel-haters to be the capital of fictional “Palestine,” to do likewise. Coinciding with the diplomat expulsions, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards participated in naval drills off Simonstown naval base on the Cape coast. South Africa’s crippled, if not inoperative, navy, together with the real warships of China and Russia, completed the flotilla. Close to this time, the Iranian regime unleashed the most violent crackdown ever on protestors. As many as 30,000 freedom-yearning martyrs were gunned down. Body bags ran out, and mass graves were dug. Beholden to Iran for bailing it out, Ramaphosa and his party uttered not a peep. They did call for the U.N. Security Council to meet. To get the head around the blatant Islamist capture of a majority Christian country, the key is Naledi Pandor, a black convert to Islam. From the president’s picked foreign minister, she got deployed to the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Here she rebooted this hallowed body to her dark anti-Jew, anti-Christian outlook. Denigrating Christian Zionism as a “force for genocide,” Pandor promises money to anyone prepared to combat it. She’ll see to it that idiot donors lured by the Mandela name will be financing the African terrorist group Boko Haram (translated as “Western education is a sin”). Notably in Nigeria, but even in Mozambique on the country’s border, the terrorist group abducts schoolgirls, beheads Christians, and drives indigenous tribal people into oblivion. About the expulsion of Israel’s chargé d’affaire, a U.S. State Department spokesman called it, “Poor foreign policy choices. Expelling a diplomat for calling out the ANC’s ties to Hamas and other antisemitic radicals prioritizes grievance politics over the good of South Africa and its citizens.” He meant that Ramaphosa’s crew regard the country and its people as expendable and ransack the country while they can. In short, self-destruction has gone down to the wire. The atrocity of what Pandor has made of the Nelson Mandela name is testimony from the pit of hell. Her Islamist Jew-hatred is equal to that for Christianity, that Conflates biblical prophecy with political support for Israeli settler colonialism and remains a driving force in legitimising occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Deeply rooted in colonial history and amplified by global networks, this ideology has been a barrier to achieving peace and justice for Palestinians. The misuse of religious scripture to justify domination and discrimination is something we know all too well in South Africa. The real-life Mandela made a stark contrast. In his epic struggle against apartheid, he acknowledged his debt to Zionism in his epic memoir. His admiration of Zionist leaders is undeniable. Even Menachem Begin’s book became his guide to guerrilla warfare. Nor was Mandela too big to admit that he learned from Arthur Goldreich, a South African Jew who fought with Israel’s pre-independence militia, the Palmach. What then was the real motive for expelling Israel’s diplomat? What did his gross interference in domestic politics amount to? It amounted to the most basic human need of all. It came down to water. The problem, as President Ramaphosa and his merry bandits saw it, was that Israel’s diplomat had done the unforgivable. Keeping to diplomatic norms, Ariel Seiderman had forsaken four walls and a desk for humanity outreach. As a former Israeli ambassador confirmed, “I spent four years in South Africa, and I never asked permission to go anywhere.” Yet Seiderman sought to help solve a deadly water crisis in the Eastern Cape, among the poorest of provinces, and that led to expulsion by the Jew-mad ANC. Three decades after assuming power, the ruling party still ignored the country’s Human Rights Commission complaint that a third of families had no plumbing; that pit latrines were the rule; that human beings shared water with animals. In perfect sync, the tyrants of Tehran stare down their own self-inflicted water nemesis: Tehran may have to be evacuated because taps have run dry. A copycat of the Eternal Law: in Iran as in its ANC proxy. Depriving the ANC’s own black people never got a second thought. On his trip to the Eastern Cape, Israel’s diplomat met the AbaThembu King, who’d gone to Israel and was more than impressed with what he discovered. Back home, he met 50 other traditional leaders. They visited hospitals and universities and shared the visits on social media. Everything was as transparent as can possibly be. Why shouldn’t they call on Israel, it being the leader in water management throughout Africa? What did the ANC’s fat thieving cadres have to offer? The party’s secretary general, Fikile April Mbalula, gave the brutal answer: the diplomat’s engagements did not support the party’s “Palestine” policy. The ANC could never tolerate optics so destructive to its anti-Jew policies. It had taken Israel to The Hague for genocide. It was beholden to Iran for baling it out of bankruptcy. It had become a diplomatic proxy to complement its terrorist proxies. Expel or be damned. Depriving the ANC’s own black people never got a second thought. The water situation in Nelson Mandela Bay, in the province, is so critical that councils have to issue notices, “Do not drink water.” Coli contamination is rife. Rampant diarrheal disease causes disease and death among the young. Schools have to be closed due to a lack of sanitation. That’s how much President Ramaphosa (the billionaire who never started a business in his life) hates the Jew-state and the Jews. Like the tyrants of Tehran deploying national wealth to wipe Israel off the map, he’s determined to self-destruct. Surely, President Trump will come down on the party like a ton of bricks. Beyond all expectations, however, he’s given the preferential trade agreement ALGOA, worth billions to South Africa in tariff-free entry to America, a year of grace. Yet a legal flashpoint looms. When Ramaphosa, as chairman of cellular operator MTN, embroiled it in a 49 percent stake in Iran’s second-largest mobile network operator, he violated the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act. Damages are being sought on behalf of U.S. military members and civilians killed or wounded in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2017. Iran’s decision to shut down communications during its deadly crackdown on protests, without informing the MTN group, will no doubt exacerbate the fallout. South African Jewish leaders who welcomed Ramaphosa as president, like the knight in shining armor, forgot one point: when vice president, he’d looked over President Zuma’s shoulder year after year as the latter sold government functions, including tax collection and treasury, to Indian mafia brothers, now on the run from arrest warrants. He looked on as Zuma and the Gupta brothers offered the finance minister, Nene, R500 million to give them access to the Treasury. He declined. When he took over, Ramaphosa made Nene his finance minister. In late 2018, the worthy man quit, admitting he’d visited the Gupta gangsters. “We know exactly what to do so Iran can also have plentiful water,” said Netanyahu. “The thirst for water in Iran is only matched by the thirst for freedom.” He could easily have had the Eastern Cape in mind. He recounted to the Iranian people how, “The tyrants of Tehran preferred sending hundreds of billions of dollars not to you, but to Hamas, Hezbollah, to the Houthis — instead of funding your hospitals, your schools, and your roads. So much money has been burnt to hell.” “To hell” is right. Ramaphosa and his doomed party may have cause to remember, and to rue, God’s eternal curse. “Him that curses you I will curse.” READ MORE from Steve Apfel: When Fighting Antisemitism Becomes a Spectacle Shepherds Without Swords Trump Puts the Squeeze on Antisemites. Don’t Let S. Africa Slide.